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SEDU]>I (Stone-crop.) 



DWARF VARIETIES. 



Suitable for the rockery, carpet bedding, covering of graves, etc. 



Acre ( Golden. Afoss). Miuli used for covering graves; foliage 

 green, flowers bright yellow. 



Album. Green foliage, white flowers. 



Kamtschaticum. Deep green foliage; yellow flowers in June; 

 8 inches. 



Lydium Glaucum. A neat variety, with glaucoas foliage. 



Middendorfianum. Narrow green foliage, sulphur-yellow flow- 

 ers in summer. 



Sexangulare. Dark green foliage, yellow flowers. 



Sieboldi. Round, succulent, glaucous foliage, bright pink flowers 

 in August and September. 



Stahli. Compact species with crimson-tinted foliage in autumn. 



Stolonifera. One of the most desirable, flit succulent leaves, 

 flowers purplish-pink; July and August; 6 inches. 



Spurium. Attractive pink flowers; 6 inches. 



— Coccineum. A beautiful crimson-flowered form. 



1.5 cts. each; $1 50 per doz. ; ?10.00 per 100. 



ERECT, OR TALL-QROWINQ VARIETIES, 



Useful and pretty plants for the border, producing their interest- 

 ing flowers during late summer and fall. 

 Japonicuni Macrophyllum. Forms compact bushes 15 



inches high, with pleasing waxy-white flowers, with light 



pink centres. 

 Maximum Atropurpureum. Interesting on account of 



its dark bronzy-purple foliage ; 15 inches. 

 Spectabilis. One of the prettiest erect-growing species, at 



taining a height of IS inches, with broad light green foliage 



and immense heads of handsome showy rose-colored flowers; 



indispensable as a late fall-blooming plant. 



— "Brilliant." A rich coloied form of tlie preceding, 

 being a bright amaranth-red. 25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz. 



Price, except where noted, 15 cts. each; $1.50 per doz.; 

 $10.00 per 100. One each of the four sorts for 50 cts. 



SE^PEKVIVUM (Hou.eLeek). 



Peculiarly interesting plants for the rockery or for any exposed, 

 well-drainjd position. We can furnish six distinct varieties at 

 10 cts. each; $1.00 per doz. Set of 6 for 50 cts. 



SoLIDAGC 



Sedum Spectabilis. 



SENECIO (Groundsel). 



Especially suited for planting in low, moist ground- grow 



from 3 to 5 feet high, producing a bold effect. 



Clivorum. Very large, round leaves and heavy stems of pure 

 yellow flowers. 



Pulcher. Forms a neat tuft of foliage, from which spring up, 

 from July to October, a succession of 2 feet high stems, with 

 clusters of Ijrilliant rosy-purple flowers, of good size. 



Veitchianus. Its tall flower-stems arise from a wide-spread- 

 ing tuft of large cordate leaves, bearing bright yellow flowers 

 in July and August. 



25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz. 



SHORTIA. 



Galacifolia. A rare and handsome dwarf evergreen, with bronzy-green foliage. 

 Requires a shady position and a soil made up mostly of leaf-mould. The 

 flowers are pure white, al)out an inch across, each on a stiff, wiry stem, and 

 turn pink with age. 25 cts. each. 



SII.E1VE (Catchn,). 



Alpestris. A good rock-work plant, grows about 4 inches high, with glisten- 

 ing white flowers in July and August. 



Schafta (,-1 uhunn Cntclijly). A charming border or rock plant, growing from 

 4 to 6 inches high, with nias.ses of bright pink flowers from July to October. 

 15 cts. each; $1.50 per doz.; $10.00 per 100. 



SltrPHIUM (Cup Plant). 

 Perfoliatum. A tall growing perennial 6 to 8 feet high, bearing large yellow 

 single flowers during August and September; a good subject for the shrub- 

 border. 25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz. 



SISYRINCHIUM (Satin Lily, or Blue-eyed Grass^ 

 Bermudianum. A pretty, early spring and fall-flowering ))lant, with blue 

 flowers and grass-like foliage; 10 inches. 15 cts. each; $1.50 per doz. 



SOL,IDAGO (Golden Rod). 



The varieties offered below are the most desirable of our native Golden Rods. 

 Altissima. The giant of the family, attaining a height of 10 to 12 fet-t; the 



large heads of golden-yellow flowers reach perfection late in October. 

 Canadensis. Grows 4 to 5 feet high, with spikes of golden yellow flowers 



from the end of July until .September. 

 Golden Wings. The finest of all; 5 feet high with immense panicles of 



bright golden-vellow flowers from July to September. 

 Stiortia. Golden-yellow flowers in July and August; 3 feet. 

 Virgaurea Nana. Grows but 15 inches high; deep yellow flowers in .\ugust 



and September. 

 Price, 15 cts. each; $1.50 per doz.; $10.00 per 100. 



Paeonies are one of our Specialties. — See pages 216 and 217. 



